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- According to the Coptic tradition, Mark was born in Cyrene, a city in the Pentapolis of North Africa (now Libya). This tradition adds that Mark returned to Pentapolis later in life, after being sent by Paul to Colossae (Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24.)
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According to the Synoptic Gospels, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross of Jesus Christ to the crucifixion. According to one tradition, Mark the Evangelist was born in the Pentapolis, and later returned after preaching with Paul the Apostle in Colosse (Col 4:10) and Rome (Phil 24; 2 Tim 4:11); from Pentapolis he made his way to Alexandria.
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica . Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar ...
Jul 4, 2023 · Where was ancient Cyrene and what is it today? Ancient Cyrene was located on the coast of North Africa at the site of modern-day Shahhat, Libya. When was Cyrene established and by whom?
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- Cyrene was founded in 631 BCE by immigrants from the Greek island of Thera.
- Famous citizens of Cyrene include the hedonistic philosopher Aristippus, the poet/scholar Callimachus, the polymath Eratosthenes, the philosopher H...
- Cyrene was abandoned after the earthquakes of 262 and 365 CE but had been severely damaged by civil strife and the land is thought to have been dep...
Jan 10, 2024 · Archaeological site of Cyrene. Credit: Giovanni Boccardi cc by-sa 3.0. The group identified by most scholars as the ancient Libyans whom the Greeks encountered are the Berbers. They are of Amazigh descent, the native population of North Africa, and the civilization itself is first mentioned in ancient Egyptian sources as such.
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St. Mark was a native of the North Africa county of Libya. He was born in the city of Cyrene in Pentapolis, the western part of Libya, west of the border of Egypt. St. Mark was born of Jewish parents several years after the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. His original name was John and his surname was Mark : "And when he (Peter ...
According to the Coptic tradition, Mark was born in Cyrene, a city in the Pentapolis of North Africa (now Libya). This tradition adds that Mark returned to Pentapolis later in life, after being sent by Paul to Colossae (Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24.)
It is not inconceivale that Coptic relations with North Africa, notably with Cyrenaica or the Pentapolis, took place with the introduction of Christianity. In his visitations from Alexandria, Saint Mark must have been accompanied to the Pentapolis by Alexandrine helpers.
